187 187 Toshiko Eda 33

"Don't worry, the villa is normally available"

"No... more than that, are you okay?

Eda keeps walking.

I was walking beside it.

The main road approaches.

The sound of the truck passing through my ear.

"What do you mean you're okay?

"I don't know... my parents are divorced..."

"I thought I would someday."

Flat out, Eda says.

"That's what happened yesterday, all at once..."

"Right."

I don't know what to say.

I went down the paddy road in silence for a while.

Past the side of the main road, followed by more paddy roads.

Eda twinkled with a blur when he slipped away from the light truck.

"So I have to say goodbye"

"Huh?"

I thought I heard wrong.

The sun shines on Eda.

Beautiful girl grating downstairs without her long hair tied.

He's the student chairman at Bridge High School where I go, and he's my girlfriend.

He is also smart and even held in awe through admiration.

"I'm moving in at the same time as the summer vacation ends."

"Wait, wait, put it in order... I don't know"

"I knew Okaya-kun was stupid..."

"Oh, ask me, stupid, so I can tell"

"... I'm moving to Tokyo with my mother"

He said he would use the rest of his summer vacation to go through the divorce and move process.

Eda also said he intended to drop out of high school.

"How could you do that..."

"Mother, good luck. The Eda family is a big landlord in the Okinawa district, so tough on their old cliché... I've been married to such a house and it's been a lot of hard work... I'd like to give them a rest now"

"Then you don't have to go to Tokyo with Eda."

"Will you call me Tomiko? Because my last name changes."

It was a cold tone.

I nodded silently. [M]

Tomiko continued after laughing bitterly with regret.

"Sorry......"

"Don't apologize. Not like you..."

"That's terrible... I'm going to go to college to get my high school diploma exam... dropping out won't be a problem"

"... well, maybe so"

Tomiko is smart.

It would probably be easier to get a graduation certificate exam and go to college.

That was not the problem.

It means you have to quit Bridge High School.

"It's okay, because it's something I've been deciding for a long time. When my parents got divorced, I said I was leaving the Eda family at the same time... that breath-taking house, if possible, I wanted to leave too. After that, you and your mother will live together normally..."

There was even a flamboyant atmosphere somewhere.

"So this trip to the villa is the last luxury that is the Eda surname"

I'm smiling, but there was loneliness somewhere.

After all, that's not the problem.

"Okay, so"

"What?

Fumiko tilts her neck behind her face.

I loosened my expression as I looked at it. [M]

"Outlook...... I knew it"

"Don't try anything"

"I'm just out of line..."

It's time for the paddy road to end.

If you go through a short residential area and through an idle shopping district, you're already at the station.

"Living with your mother is what you wanted."

After biting his lower lip, Tomiko told him.

"But it's hard to say goodbye to everyone..."

"Oh."

Something seemed to be leaking from Tomiko.

A girl who has protected herself with a stiff wall gets stuck in a turbulent stream of emotions.

The walls break down and the soft heart reveals itself to the surface.

"I don't like it when Shiba and I break up... Mia and I finally get along..."

I'm in tears.

I try not to see it. [M]

I peeled down and hid my face with a straw hat tuba.

"Even Miki admires me, Oki is scared of me, but still... from now on..."

"Right..."

"Student union members, classmates, faculty... I've been involved with a lot of people under Eda's name... it's hard to throw that away..."

I stopped.

I don't have much time.

But I can't even say that.

Tomiko also noticed that I stopped.

Stop Ayumi and sprinkle.

"Above all, Okaya-kun... it's hard to break up with you..."

Face each other from the front.

There was no Toshiko Eda before me.

Just Tomiko. There was a regular girl, Tomiko.

When I sighed briefly, I tried to say in a bright voice.

"I'm not breaking up"

"Huh?"

"Tokyo, right? I've been there recently, but I'm close to showing you."

I open my eyes wide, and Tomiko is waiting for my words.

I don't have the power to purify all your grief and spiciness.

But I can show you facts that I didn't see in person.

Toshiko probably came to my house in anticipation of it.

"Besides, Shiba and I won't be able to be friends... Mia won't be the type to cut the relationship just because the distance is away"

"But..."

Tomiko holding his fist and closing his mouth hard.

Yes. In fact, physical distance is huge.

Sometimes it's a relationship that I could keep because it's a distance from seeing each other every day.

But if you're just pessimistic, you can't even see hope.

"It's the path Tomiko chose...... we all do our best to support him. I'm surprised it's sudden, but it's not a big deal."

Yes, I tell myself.

It's no big deal.

I have eyes for Tomiko.

There are even more tears in those eyes.

"I'm not breaking up with Tomiko, and we're all going to Tokyo."

"... Okaya-kun"

"Isn't that good for all of us? If you have company in Tokyo, it's easy to go and play."

"... Okaya-kun"

They're calling me names, but ignored me and I went on.

"When you're a college student, you'll be even easier to get out of Tokyo... oh, maybe we should all go to college in Tokyo. So, you want to live with me?

Just kidding. I suggested it.

As I tried to laugh, Eda raised her voice.

"Okaya-kun!

"Oh, oh... sorry, living with me is a joke"

Raise your hands and explain.

As I swung my neck from left to right, Tomiko looked at me in tears.

"I'm only gonna say this once."

"... ah, oh"

Something terrible was going to happen to me, and I set myself up.

When I put the summer air into my lungs, Tomiko said.

"Thanks...... glad I like you"

In fact, it was outrageous.

This is what it means to be shot through the heart.

A look with a moist eye but a smile on it.

In the summer sun, but shadowed by a straw hat, the uncut seeps into its face.

As I stood still, I could not move the scene.

Come on, let's go.

"What?"

The softness of Tomiko, which I felt until a moment ago, is gone.

The air changes as if what happened earlier was a dream.

There was an air like the tension brewed by the usual Tomiko.

"If you're late, I'll blame you for luck."

But there have been times when only soot has changed.

"You're lucky now..."

"I wonder what it is?

Sleek attitude, but its mouth was laughing.